“More: You want me to swear to the Act of Succession?
Margaret: "God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth." Or so you've always told me.
More: Yes.
Margaret: Then say the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise.
More: What is an oath then but words we say to God?”
Act II
A Man for All Seasons (1960)
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Act II
A Man for All Seasons (1960)

“Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret….”
Repeated line
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. (1970)
Source: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Twitter post https://twitter.com/jaynordlinger/status/1039147401657962496 (10 September 2018)
2010s

“Even more than in a poem, it is the aphorism that the word is god.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell”

Truly.
Song lyrics, Lionel Richie (1982)